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Some Taiwanese firms making chip and electronic components in the eastern Chinese city of Kunshan said deliveries would be postponed until next month
Several Russian banks have been banned from SWIFT after Moscow invaded Ukraine on February 24 as part of wider western penalties
The deal will lead to the integration of Ant's Alipay+ payment service with 2C2P's platform used by merchants in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) is in the process of creating an open standard, which will work with any software and highlight evidence of tampering
US government agencies are probing TikTok over its alleged handling of child sexual abuse material, the Financial Times reported.
The group has already invested in tech - it owns antivirus pioneer McAfee and software firm Landesk - but it remained unclear when it might make an offer
The National Radio and Television Administration said the move was designed to eliminate "online live broadcast chaos", as well as teenagers' addiction to games
"Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company," Musk said in a letter to Twitter chairman Bret Taylor. His offer price of $54.20 a share, represents a 38% premium on its April 1 close
India's cryptocurrency boom has spawned a wave of social media stars who aim to help rookie investors get rich quick.
Gamers in China are only allowed to play titles approved by the government and are not allowed to play with foreigners on foreign servers
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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